Federico Kircheis wrote: > On 30/06/2025 7:11 pm, Michael Paoli wrote: > And this also holds for metapackages like lxqt. > It still installs a lot of things, so down to lxqt-core. > It still installs some things I've noticed and to not want, so I need to > inspect which packages are installed, transitive dependencies included.. > > I hoped it would have been possible to exlucde dependencies, for examle by > prefixing them with "-"; for example: > > apt install lxqt -meteo-qt
You can postfix "-" to get that behavior. apt install lxqt meteo-qt- Also, do you know that the -s switch to apt install will tell you the whole plan without retrieving or installing the packages? -dsr-
